Brenda Tharp

After earning a degree in computer science, Brenda worked in the corporate world until 1985, when she thought she would wither away inside and decided to focus her energy and creativity in the direction of photography – specifically outdoor and travel photography.

To be sure, to survive the start-up of her new career, she initially photographed ‘everything and anything’ for clients, but her main focus was getting editorial assignments from travel and outdoor magazines, and licensing her photographs for stock usage.

Now, many years later, Brenda has run the gamut of doing editorial and advertising assignments, producing images for calendars, books, brochures, greeting cards and posters. A short list of clients includes British Gas, Canon USA, The Natural Museum of Chicago, Sierra Club, Audubon, Nature Conservancy, Outdoor Photography, Travel-Holiday Magazine, several inflight magazines, ATT, United Way and Red Cross.

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About

Chasing The Light Juried Photography is committed to discovering and promoting emerging new photographers who have the talent to turn the mundane into something extraordinary. Our themed competitions attract outstanding photographers from around the world.

Our mission is to increase the exposure of your work. We maintain an up-to-date list of industry professionals who are actively seeking new talent and fresh images. We market outstanding, award-winning images to over 1,200 select professional Photo Editors, Art Directors and photo publications, in addition to the general public. Any and all inquiries for publication and print sales are referred directly to the photographer per the contact information provided with each image.

Photographer Paul Marcellini says, “MY PHOTO sold for several thousand dollars for use as the cover of a National Georgaphic Grade 4 Science Textbook.”

Photographer Ron Wolf: “MY PHOTO sold for use in the Sierra Club Engagement Calendar.”

Photographer John Kimbler: “MY PHOTO sold for use in a Science Textbook.”

1) Our judges are accomplished and respected professional photographers who through a blind jury process will select first, second and third place winning photographs.
2) The top three (3) winning photographers receive a Chasing the Light digital image award for display on the winner's websites. In addition, the top three winning photographers are awarded with a marketing package consisting of the following and including photographer's contact email, website URL and social media information:

A) Prominent exposure of the winning photos on the Yellowstone.Net website, Discussion Forums and Facebook page. Yellowstone.Net is a leading commercial Yellowstone site, receiving hundreds of thousands of page views each month. In addition, the Yellowstone Net Forums are home to some 4,000 members and tens of thousands of monthly visitors, while the Yellowstone Net Facebook page has an audience reach of more than 20,000.

B) The display of the winning images on the homepage of the Chasing the Light website for a duration of at least two months.

C) Promotion of the winning photos on the Facebook page(s) of our judges.

D) Email promotion of the winning photos through an email targeted at 1,200 professional Photo Editors and Art Directors who are looking for fresh and creative new imagery.

3) Our judges will select twenty (25) "Runners Up" whose work will be displayed on the Chasing the Light website, along with each photographer's contact email, website URL and social media information in the Themed Contest Gallery.
4) Copyright remains with the photographer. Artists whose submissions are chosen for online exhibition grant Chasing The Light Juried Photography (CTLJP) and their channels, the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition, marketing the CTLJP programs and subsequent display on the CTLJP website of past exhibitions without further contact or compensation from CTLJP.
5) The cost to enter a Chasing the Light Juried Photography competition is only $25 for 5 images.